Ernst Kaiser (geographer)

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Ernst Kaiser (born December 23, 1885 in Hildburghausen , † July 7, 1961 in Hildburghausen) was a German geographer and educator.

Life

In 1889 the family moved to Graefenthal , where Ernst attended elementary school from 1892 to 1900. In Hildburghausen he attended the teachers' seminar until 1905 . He gained experience in teaching from 1905 to 1910 in the Rhön . After studying natural sciences, geography and pedagogy at the University of Jena until 1913 , he became rector of the Bad Liebenstein elementary school and began his educational reform. During the First World War he married Elisabeth Schmidt in 1915 and had to do a short military service in 1915/16. Back in Bad Liebenstein from 1916, Kaiser went to the teachers' seminar in Hildburghausen in 1919 and became its director in 1925. In 1926 Ernst Kaiser received his doctorate with a thesis on the sociology of plants on the “flora of the Franconian- Henneberg Muschelkalk region”.

From 1929 to 1932 he taught as a professor of geography at the Erfurt Education Academy , which was closed in 1932 due to the austerity policy. As a school supervisor, he then oversaw the Prussian district of Ziegenrück and the district of Schleusingen until 1945. Then he retired, but continued to publish on Thuringia and became a "Geographer of Thuringia".

Conservationists

The efforts of Ernst Kaiser led to the fact that the lower Vessertal was designated as one of the largest nature reserves in Thuringia as early as 1939 with an area of ​​1384 hectares .

Fonts

  • Thuringian Forest and Slate Mountains , Gotha 1931
  • Regional studies of Thuringia , Erfurt 1933
  • Dr. Ludwig Nonne , the school reformer and "Pestalozzi Thuringia" , 1948
  • The Thuringian Basin between the Harz Mountains and the Thuringian Forest , 1954
  • Oberes Werraland and Grabfeld , Jena 1961

literature

  • Alexander Hesse: The professors and lecturers of the Prussian educational academies (1926-1933) and colleges for teacher training (1933-1941) . Deutscher Studien-Verlag, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-89271-588-2 , p. 404–405 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

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personal data
SURNAME Kaiser, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildburghausen
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1961
Place of death Hildburghausen